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I've Got The Yes We Have No Bananas Blues

by: Billy West; Brown; Hanley; King

Grey Gull (2118 (a))

Publication date: 1922-06

Topics: 78rpm, Novelty, Popular Music, acoustic

Digitizing sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Performer: Billy West
Writer: Brown ; Hanley; King

with orchestra.

Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer this record. They are 3.8 mil truncated conical, 2.3 mil truncated conical, 2.8 mil truncated conical, 3.3 mil truncated conical.

The preferred versions suggested by an audio engineer at George Blood, L.P. have been copied to have the more friendly filenames.

Matrix number: 5234A11
Catalog number: 2118 (a)

Other IDs from the record include: 5234

Song Title	Versions	Compilations	Covers
I've Got The Yes We Have No Bananas Blues - Billy West;Brown ;Hanley;King

Notes

The recording on the other side of this disc: Hey You Want Any Codfish?

Technical Notes: Acoustic, Grooves worn

Addeddate: 2017-07-06 23:31:10

Boxid: IA1501014

Collection-catalog-number: GBIA0011452A

Condition: Fair

External-identifier: urn:matrix_no:5234A11

External_metadata_update: 2019-03-27T07:49:02Z

Genre: Popular Music
Novelty

Identifier: 78_ive-got-the-yes-we-have-no-bananas-blues_billy-west-brown--hanley-king_gbia0011452a

Location: USA

Run time: 00:03:00

Scanner: Internet Archive Python library 1.5.0

Scanningcenter: George Blood, L.P.

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Reviewer: DeTrixsta - - November 4, 2017
Subject: for the record...

Billy Jones was Billy West.. a name he sometimes used when recording for Harmony, Grey Gull, etc.

Reviewer: brewbot - - October 7, 2017
Subject: 78rpm record from 06/??/22

Matched on Catalog number, Publisher, and person confirmed.
06/??/22 is from http://www.78discography.com/GG2000.htm

Reviewer: arc-claire - - August 4, 2017
Subject: I've Got The Yes We Have No Bananas Blues

A response to the wild success of the popular novelty song, "Yes! We Have No Bananas," originally sung by Eddie Cantor and then recorded by Billy Jones, this follow-up finds yet another singer (Billy West) joining the craze. Many different artists covered the original song, which led Eddie Cantor to record "I've Got The Yes We Have No Bananas Blues," which was in turn covered by artists like Billy Jones and Billy West.

Based on Frank Silver's real experience with a Greek fruit stand owner who started every sentence with "Yes," "Yes! We Have No Bananas" is a popular novelty song written by Silver and Irving Cohn for Eddie Cantor's performance in the 1922 Broadway revue "Make It Snappy." Billy Jones was the first to place on the charts with his recording—his version was number one for five weeks in 1923.

Billy Jones' version of the hit the song references: https://archive.org/details/78_yes-we-have-no-bananas_billy-jones-silver-and-cohn_gbia0011290b
Original "I've Got The Yes We Have No Bananas Blues": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8C1o3fQrgk

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